36 Random Bits of Trivia Slopped Onto Our Trays by an Overzealous Lunch Lady

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36 Random Bits of Trivia Slopped Onto Our Trays by an Overzealous Lunch Lady
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We don’t know how lunch ladies started getting such a bad rap in TV and movies, but that trope ends now! Ours were always so lovely and giving that we wanted to honor them by helping to right the wrongs of pop culture. 

Not only did they spill a little extra slop in our bowls once in a while, they’d even throw a few random facts our way. Here are a few tidbits that those angels spilled onto our lunch trays over the years…

Narcissism

Narcissism is linked to aggression CRACKED.COM 437 studies showed a significant link between narcissism and both aggression and violence.

Tater Tots

Tater tots were invented to use up leftover potato chunks in the Ore-Ida factory. They get their shape by being extruded Play-Doh- style and sliced. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Sam Neill

CRACKED.COM Sam Neill is a farmer. Everyone's favorite grumpy paleontogist runs Two Paddocks, a vineyard and farm where he doesn't raise dinosaurs, but the next best thing: animals named after his celebrity friends (so he won't be tempted to eat them). Appropriately, Jeff Goldblum is a horny ram.

Goosebumps

36 Random Bits of Trivia Slopped Onto Our Trays by an Overzealous Lunch Lady

Judd Apatow

Judd Apatow had big plans for north hollywood CRACKED.COM Who wouldn't watch an Apatow comedy about aspiring actors starring Amy Poehler, Jason Segel, Judge Reinhold, Adam McKay, and Kevin Hart? Apparently, idiot ABC executives. They didn't want to do edgy, experimental comedy, they wanted to go back to Happy Days.

British UFO Sightings

In the 1950s, a detailed UFO sighting was made in the UK by members of the Royal Air Force. The British Government, led by Winston Churchill, kept it a secret from the public. CRACKED.COM

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The Golden Gate Bridge

The official color of the Golden Gate Bridge is International Orange. CRACKED.COM Architect Irving F. Morrow undertook color studies, which resulted in the unique color because it blended well with the near- by hills and contrasted with the ocean and sky.

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Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog was initially a rabbit. Developer Yuji Naka wanted to give the character a somersault attack, but later figured that it'd make zero sense for a rabbit to do so with its long ears, because it'd hurt itself while doing the attack. CRACKED.COM

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The Doodles Don’t Lie

Loopy doodles clear your noodle. B People who scribble fluid, uninterrupted lines perform better on abstract, creative thinking tests.
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Marilyn Monroe

WROVG AGAIIV If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best. Marilyn Monroe No one knows who actually said this, but it wasn't Ma

Terrible LG Promotion

0392 T00PM :00. PM Fndlyyoctober T1 Sprint g LG When LG promoted their G2 phone in Seoul by attaching phone vouchers to helium balloons in a park, fan

Moving Belts

36 Random Bits of Trivia Slopped Onto Our Trays by an Overzealous Lunch Lady

Eva Peron

Eva Peron's open silver casket... ...was kept on display on her husband's dining room table. He later moved her to the attic, where he built a shrine

Dr. No

In the original script for Dr. No, Academy Award-winning screenwriter Wolf Mankowitz made the titular villain a monkey. The producer Albert R. Broccol

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